The 10 best classic Mac OS games
Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 411 review scores of 332 classic Mac OS games; 16 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.
Only 2 classic Mac OS games with 3 reviews or more have reached 90: here are the best 10.
| # | Game | Platform | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SimCity 2000 | Mac OS Classic | 1994 | 93.6 |
| 2 | Civilization | Mac OS Classic | 1993 | 90 |
| 3 | The Journeyman Project | Mac OS Classic | 1993 | 89 |
| 4 | SimEarth: The Living Planet | Mac OS Classic | 1990 | 87.2 |
| 5 | SimLife | Mac OS Classic | 1992 | 86.8 |
| 6 | Full Metal Planète | Mac OS Classic | 1992 | 85.2 |
| 7 | Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis | Mac OS Classic | 1992 | 84.3 |
| 8 | Tiny Skweeks | Mac OS Classic | 1992 | 84.3 |
| 9 | Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True | Mac OS Classic | 1985 | 81.5 |
| 10 | Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur | Mac OS Classic | 1989 | 81.3 |
Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews
45 classic Mac OS games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.
How the ranking works
- The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
- A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
- A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
- Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
- Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.
The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.
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